A photographer and journalist named Askia Muhammad has released a picture he took in 2005 of then Senator Barack Obama with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Muhammad admits that the photo was hidden from the public in order to protect Obama’s political career.

The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005

A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future.

The photographer, Askia Muhammad, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he “gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy.”

“But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover,” Muhammad said.

Asked whether he thought the photo’s release would have affected Obama’s presidential campaign, Muhammad said, “I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference.”

Reached by TPM on Thursday, Muhammad said a “staff member” for the CBC contacted him “sort of in a panic” after he took the photo at a caucus meeting in 2005.

They had ample cause for concern. Obama’s connections to Reverend Jeremiah Wright almost toppled his 2008 campaign and Farrakhan makes Wright look like a moderate.

Of course, had the photo been available in 2008, all of Obama’s media allies would have simply labeled critics as racists like they did for everything else.

Askia Muhammad was interviewed by Tucker Carlson last night. He confirmed that he was told that the photo had to be hidden for political purposes. Watch below:

Muhammad and others almost immediately realized that the public release of this photo could mean major trouble down the road. Mainly because of bigotry and fear-mongering, the public release of that photo could doom America’s chances of electing Obama as its first Black President.

Muhammad had not even left the scene when he received a call and the photo was being summoned by a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Muhammad ultimately surrendered the disk to Minister Farrakhan’s chief of staff. And it remained one of America’s best hidden secrets for the next 12 years…

“I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy,” Muhammad said in an exclusive interview with the Trice Edney News Wire this week. “But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover.”

Obama was endorsed by Farrakhan in 2008 and was asked about it in a debate by Tim Russert:

Here are a couple of relevant tweets:

Barack Obama meeting with Louis Farrakhan is the moral equivalent of Donald Trump meeting with David Duke. But don’t expect the bien pensants to treat it that way.

This picture of Obama & Farrakhan wouldn’t have made a difference. Journalists largely ignored Obama’s 20 year friendship with racist Wright, who’s said a lot of the same things. It’s more a testament to how lazy/in the tank journalists are that this wasn’t “discovered” till now. pic.twitter.com/xgInwCV95M

Check out the story called “Rage Against the Machine” in the current Smithsonian Magazine issue dedicated to 1968. It’s available in the online version.

In it, Todd Gilpin an activist then, “a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the PhD program in communications at Columbia University” now, concocts a story about the 1968 Democrat convention.

Here’s how he describes his intention with this fiction:

“Recently, he’s been working on a novel about the era, called The Opposition, in an effort to convey some of the ineffable “currents of feeling, of sensibility, even of collective unconscious that you can’t write about while confining yourself to established fact.” ….”

Sound like Obama’s “composite girlfriend” or “the rape culture at UVA” or … any other Leftist story in which the facts are proved false but the narrative is somehow still true?

In his monologue one night on his old NBC show, David Letterman noted a news story that Louis Farrakhan got five million dollars from Muammar Gaddafi. “When I heard that,” said Letterman, “I lost all respect for Gaddafi.”

I don’t get why we keep normalizing these people. We complain about the media as if they committed a foul and didn’t get 10 yards for it. As if they were part of the game and not some jerk trespassing.

They are simply Democrat hacks. flying under false colors. Either hang them or ignore them, but don’t keep trying to reform them. It lends them a respectability and regard as something worth saving.

I’ve often wondered if the media would die off if we simply stopped talking about them. Kind of a reverse Tinkerbell – they only persist because we breath life into them by believing their is still something in there worth salvaging.

RE: “I’ve often wondered if the media would die off if we simply stopped talking about them”

The MSM has been bleeding oceans of red ink (of financial losses) for years and years and years now!

However their owners don’t “own” them for making profits.
Their owners own them for the political/corruption tools that they are.
Their owners are “cross-subsidizing” the money losing media from other profitable ventures…..

“Far fetched? If you know anything about the harsh contempt most black Americans feel towards the gay community, you’ll see this scenario as more likely than not- that is, if you genuinely consider the (circumstantial) evidence that’s been accumulating.

Of course, being gay is not a crime in itself… it’s when you start snuffing out people who know too much about your secret sex life, that’s where we run into problems…

Last year if you’ll recall, the mother of Jeremiah Wright’s
(dead, gay) choir director went public with her belief that son Donald Young was murdered on the eve of Democratic primary season to cover up a past sexual relationship with Obama….”

I don’t think it would have had any real affect against Obama, given he was elected and re-elected. People fell in love with the idea of Obama, and when emotions rule, the brain never truly engages. When even normally sane people voted for Obama, it was projection of him being the answer to MLK’s dream, not the corruption and liar and manufactured cover story that he was.

Obama could have killed a kid on the street in front of a camera, eaten the kid’s liver, and the media would have spun it was the kid’s fault. We have an untrustworthy media. We have a large class of people who believe they are more caring because they are Democrats, not because of what that party actually does.

While this picture would have been something which hardened those who opposed Obama because of his stances and beliefs, any who brought up this photo would have cried it was racist to do that.

Mr. Mohammad is a long time nation of Islam member. He was taking the pictures, initially, for the nation of Islam. That is why he turned the original disk over to Farrakhan’s assistant.

Obama had a long history with the Nation of Islam as he was climbing the political ladder in Chicago. For years prior to that Obama had well known ties to the NOI as did Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity united Church of Christ. Obama distanced himself from both Farrakhan and Wright when he was considering his run for President, but his association with both was well known in the Chicago area.

However, the media ignored these affiliations, in Obama’s case. They were not so uninterested in the Bushes’ reported affiliation with the Skull and Bones Society at Yale. That was a big deal. That HRC was named an honorary Bonesman, in 2016, larely went unreported. And, of course, the fact that Barrack Obama had long standing close ties to NOI and Trinity, both of which were staunchly anti-American was also largely ignored by the mainstream media.

As others have asked, why is this picture being released now? That it involves a notoriously racist organization of Muslims one has to wonder what the purpose is. We’ll have to monitor the former President’s activities over the next few months and see if this is an attempt to generate greater racial and religious SJW chops for him.

So they can freely go after Trump like a pack of Dire Wolves. But first they have to cleanse their palate by offering up the crocodile tears over all the scandals they didn’t properly cover before and, dammit, they’re not going to make that mistake again.

It wasn’t obama’s negligence that caused the spread of Isis – it was his intention.

Obama is closet transvestite, a closet radical muslum, and, now, an confirmed traitor. (Not to mention the classlessness of foisting that beast michelle upon us for eight years, under the pretense of her being his ‘wife.’)

This photo was released now to affirm obama’s cred on the streets. (Literally, the streets.) So something nasty is in the works.

Lastly, the fraud of obama could not have been perpetrated upon the nation without the ‘news’ media being complicit. He couldn’t have been reelected without McCain’s help. Obama could not have succeeded without a the GOPe choosing a loser like boehner to be the Squeaker of the House? – or choosing an old hack like McConnell to head the senate and not oppose obama – but oppose conservatives? (Now, does anyone believe McCain actually wanted to be president? Does anyone still believe John Kennedy’s, Robert Kennedy’s and Martin King’s killers acted ‘alone?’ That the Warren Commission was a scam? That 9/11 investigation smells bad? That the Vegas shooting incident investigation smells bad?)

As things stand, our public and private institutions can’t be trusted anymore, having been infested with corruption, sedition and treason. It’s going to take a lot to recover from this.

First thing required is absolute transparency in everything. (As in, ‘release the memo.’)

Second is our political party that is accountable to us GOP voters, instead of the sewer of the the current GOPe hack-fest with no allegiance to our country.

Third, is the persistence in distributing media (like this blog) to counter the malignant propaganda of leftists (and cultists) who hijacked our media (including PBS and NPR.)

I would like to think, as the owner of the photo now does, that this photo would’ve changed the election if exposed. But on second thought, I think it’s not nearly inflammatory enough, and could’ve been easily explained away.

Ayres, Sharpton and Wright are bigger villains than Farrakhan. And then it is one thing to sit in Wright’s “church” Sunday after Sunday and another to attend a political meeting where Farrakhan participates. I think the photographer is looking for a little publicity.

The question after 8 years of Obama is not so much who he is but what he and his appointees did and might still get away with.